Constanze Mozart

Constanze Mozart (5 January 1762-6 March 1842) was the wife of the famed Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Biography
Constanze Weber was born in Zell im Wiesenthal, Wurttemberg, the daughter of composer Fridolin Weber and innkeeper Caecilia Stamm; she was the cousin of Carl Maria von Weber. She was raised in her mother's hometown of Mannheim, where she met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the first time. Mozart was originally in love with her sister, but he fell for Constanze and married her in 1781, against the wishes of his father Leopold Mozart. Constanze loved her husband and his works of art, and she secretly decided to give some of his original works to Austrian court composer Antonio Salieri so that Mozart could become a composer in Vienna. Salieri demanded that she have sexual intercourse with him in exchange for the favor, only to send her out of his home after she took her dress off; Salieri decided to tell King Joseph II of Austria about Mozart's musical promise. Constanze would be loyal to her husband until his death, and she secured a pension after Mozart died at the age of 35 in 1791. Mozart herself lived until 1842, dying at the age of eighty.